JEFF KOONS, Balloon Dog, 2014
18 x 25,5 x 7,5 cm/ 7 x 10 x 3 inches
transfer print on leather handbag, limited edition protection pocket, original tags
signed, dated
published by H&M, New York/Los Angeles/Chicago and Dallas, USA
condition: gold felt pen ink has discoloured on all leather bags due to oxidation; nevertheless the dark signature is easy to detect.
€ 320,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registred mail
This limited edition Balloon-Dog-on-leather-bag was only carried in select stores across the United States and not in Europe or Asia, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas. The 15th of July 2014 was the opening day of H&M’s newest Fifth Avenue flagship store in Manhattan, New York. The regular edition was put online at the company’s site hm.com two days later on July 17th, 2014 and was sold out in minutes.
At the opening most probably a few hundred handbags have been signed and dated by Koons. Nikki Lohr, reporter of The Observer/Gallerist wrote on her blog: “Mr. Biesenbach was also on board: “I love Jeff Koons working with Lady Gaga and working with H&M,” said Mr. Biesenbach. “In a certain way, it is what his work deals with naturally. It makes complete sense.” Always a man of the people, Mr. Koons signed almost every purse and scrap of paper pushed at him throughout the night. A woman in a black silky baseball cap and short black pigtails held out a Sharpie and her white iPhone to Mr. Koons. “Will you sign it?” she squealed. He traced a ‘J’ before he looked up at the woman and said apologetically, “I’m sorry, it’s just not working.”
Original status in 2014 when the handbag was provided with a signature:
JEFF KOONS, Balloon Dog, 2014
18 x 25,5 x 7,5 cm/ 7 x 10 x 3 inches
transfer print on leather bag
limited edition
published by H&M, New York/Los Angeles/Chicago and Dallas, USA
€ 200,- plus € 32,- track & Trace registered mail
Jeff Koons is a Neo-Pop artist who turns ‘the child in us’ (reminiscent of ideas in the Cobra movement) into art and art business, willingly absorbed by the art world. And beyond…
The limited edition Balloon-Dog-on-leather-bag was carried in select stores across the United States, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas. The 15th of July 2014 was the opening day of H&M’s newest Fifth Avenue flagship store in Manhattan, New York. This edition was put online at the company’s site hm.com two days later on July 17th, 2014. The Jeff Koons item was sold out in minutes.
At the opening several bags have been signed and dated by Koons.
RUCHAMA NOORDA, Gaper – magnet, 2014
20,2 x 15,1 x 0,2 cm
photo on magnet base
edition 5 + 1 AP
signed, numbered, dated
handmade by the artist and published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam in 2014
€ 250,-
introduction price until 1st of October 2014
The word “Gaper” means literally “Yawner”. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaper.
KINKE KOOI, Be Precise, 2014
60,5 x 46 cm
pencil drawing on piezografie print
each print is touched up and refined with pencil by the artist
edition 10
published by Plaats Maken, Arnhem, Netherlands
History of prices:
Plaats Maken, Arnhem, Netherlands € 395,- May 2014
PRATCHAYA PHINTHONG, Untitled (self portrait), 2014
127 x 84,7 cm
silkscreen on paper
edition 10 + 5 AP
published by More Publishers, Brussels, Belgium
p.o.r.
BARBARA KRUGER, Your gaze hits the side of my face, 2013
5-5/8 inches, width ca 1-3/4 inches
tortoise/black sunglasses with red temples
fabric drawstring sleeve for glasses, box
edition 100
published by LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
not available
The sentence “Your gaze hits the side of my face” phrase first appeared in an 1981 artwork along with the profile of an anonymous classical bust. A phrasing that suggests that such a gaze is impertinent. When it comes to the lens of a camera Barbara Kruger says: ‘What it menas to put a camera at another person, I think there is a brutality about that.’
Extra information:
Other versions published by LACMA each in an edition of 100:
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, Splat, 2013
46,7 x 35,6 cm / 18-1/4 x 14 inches
screen print with splash painting
edition 30
published by Graphic Studio, Tampa, USA
not available
Continuing his exploration of collage and the visualization of sound these partly unique prints utilize imagery from Manga comics, originally published in Japan and translated for the US market, and onomatopoeic words. Since the late 1990s, Marclay has created “graphic” scores, non-traditional forms of notation, for improvisational interpretation by musicians and vocal performers.
History of prices:
Graphic Studio, Tampa, USA € 3.270,- / $ 4,500.- December 2013
OLIVIER MOSSET, sans titre, 2012-2013
11,7 x 8,8 cm
virtual sound post card
unlimited edition
published by MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection Kees van Gelder, Amsterdam
May be obtained for free by clicking here Olivier Mosset
At the moment no sound support by Mamco!
Olivier Mosset is known for being part of the BMPT (Buren-Mosset-Parmentier-Toroni) group founded in 1968 and his huge monochromes as shown at the Swiss pavilion of the Venice Biennual. Less known is that he is a fervent Harley Davidson motorbike driver as one may understand when looking/listening at the sound postcard.
List of artists who made sound post cards for MAMCO:
Luc Andrié — Lillian Ball — Cathryn Boch — Katinka Bock — Brice Catherin — Mio Chareteau — Jérémy Chevalier — Nina Childress — Rudy Décelière — Jacques Demierre — Paul Devautour — Tamara de Wehr — Léo Durand — Peter Downsbrough — Heike Fiedler — Luca Forcucci — Gilles Furtwängler — Aloïs Godinat — Alex Hanimann — Thomas Huber — Peter Kogler — Juan José “Pepe” Laici — Anne Le Troter — Beat Lippert — Elisabeth Llach — Marlene McCarty — Olivier Mosset — Ann Noël — ORLAN — Frédéric Post — Marta Riniker-Radich — Sarkis — THE DONKEY’S TAIL — Joëlle Tuerlinckx — Francis Baudevin, Christian Pahud — Filippo Filliger, Dorothée Thébert, Colette — Francesca Gabbiani, Eddie Ruscha
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Think Piece, 2013 [set of Icelandic and English version]
(Það er fallegt en sorglegt að vera manneskja / It is beautiful but sad to be a human being)
each ca 8 x 8 x 10 cm
ball of glass with text, red ribbon with text, cardboard box
Christmas ball in original silver coloured box with small booklets in English and Icelandic
signed in print on each object
limited edition
set of two balls € 240,-
Ragnar Kjartansson says the following about this work: “It was Christmas night, 1998, and I was sitting in the living room with my father. Everyone else had gone to bed, the candles were burning out, and rain was falling on the Christmas snow outside. My father usually gets a bit drunk at Christmas and feels it’s important to use the festive occasion to instruct his son in the principles of life. This Christmas he was in a particularly good mood. We were smoking cigars and he had a glass of cognac in his hand. Suddenly, his breath heavy, he said: “Ragnar, I need to tell you something, and it is the most important thing that I will ever tell you.” He closed his eyes and there was a long silence. Then he said: “It is beautiful but sad to be a human being.” It had a profound effect on me. Now this truthful contradiction decorates the Globe of Goodwill.”
